Local 7102 News

  CWA Local 7102  Meetings are 2nd Thursday of each month.
 The August Local 7102 meeting will be held at the
 United Steel Workers of America Local 310 Union Hall at 
 125 NW Broadway Ave., Des Moines 


As you all are aware of 2008 is a CONTRACT YEAR (DAH).
In our continuing desire to keep each and everyone in the loop (COMMUNICATIONS) we are asking everyone, current members and RETIREES to contact us with their current telephone numbers and if you have QWEST voicemail - YOU MUST HAVE QWEST voice mail at YOUR HOME in order to receive the messages or your HOME E-mail address so we can send you updates on the e-mail system.
If you would please send this information on to any CWA RETIREE it would also help us with the starting of our retiree volunteer network we need all the help we can muster as this is going to be wild year. They have as much to lose as we do.
This information can be sent to jimperkey@cwa7102.org.  Let me also state that this information is for IN HOUSE use only and will NOT be given out to anyone.
REMEMBER IT'S NEVER TO EARLY TO PREPARE 
- so if you haven't started a strike fund better do so NOW. 
IT'S NEVER TO LATE UNTIL THE DATE!
Jim Perkey, EVP 

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Collective Bargaining!   What It Is?  How Does It Work   Download this flyer 
Qwest 2008 Bargaining “What Does It Look Like, What Can We Expect”
2008 bargaining for Qwest is coming up. One of the critical issues that CWA will be dealing with is the issue of Health Care benefits for both the active and retired (Post-90 retirees) and the challenges we face. The Qwest/CWA Joint Health and Wellness Advisory Committee have already started looking at solutions for Health Care for the 2008 round of bargaining.  All of us have experienced the difficulties that bargaining Health Care at the table brings us.  Each time we go to the bargaining table the number one economic topic is Health Care.  With this presentation we hope to educate our members at Qwest what the costs related to the entire economic package will be in 2008. 
GOALS: 
~Educate CWA members on the difficulties of bargaining Health Care. 
~Provide facts regarding Qwest’s 10 (k) report and its financial standing in relationship to today’s Health Care dilemma. 
~Get Rank and File engaged not only in 2008 bargaining but CWA’s Strategic Industry Fund, “Health Care for All.” 
~Help our members understand that the Health Care Crisis can not be fully resolved at any bargaining table. Noting that 2008 is not only a bargaining year but also a good time to elect a President that makes fixing Health Care a priority.
  Get this PowerPoint presentation:  "What Does this 2008 Bargaining look Like"
   Need a  Viewer?  Get It Here


Union Brothers and Sisters
First of all let me thank all of you for the privilege and honor to represent you. I have just attended the Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO's 51st Annual Convention in Waterloo, Iowa.
WOW - What a GREAT opportunity to hear our own CWA President Larry Cohen and six of the Democratic Presidential Candidates, they were as follows:
Senator Christopher Dodd, Senator John Edwards, Senator Joe Bidden, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama, in that order.
We in labor, you and I, are in great hands with whomever gets the Democratic nomination. I know that with all the push that is going on you will get tired of hearing about politics but this is very important to us and everyone needs to get involved. As you all are aware next year is a VERY BIG year for Qwest employees with the CWA/Qwest contract and politically with taking back the White House. Our lives depend on both!! With both events the major issue is health care. We will be a causality if we don't get involved. I urge each and everyone of you to get involved politically and with your union. We need to get EVERYONE, active employees and most of all the retired members involved around all the matters pertaining to us, the middle class of Iowa and America.
We, the local will be putting more information out to you around the caucus, the retired members association and issues that affect all of us!!! You don't have to wait for more information get involved now while it's still fun, so you can look back and say I helped start a change!
Now for you, that are retired or if you know someone who is, please go on line and check this site out www.retiredamericans.org Oh in case you were wondering why I'm pushing retiree involvement, as of the 1st of August 2007 I became one! I'm still paying dues and working for YOU, my brothers and sisters.
Jim Perkey Executive Vice President Local 7102
SO LET'S GET FIRED UP!   CWA AND CWA RETIREE'S ARE ON THE MOVE!


2008 CWA Bargaining Committee
 Mark Rocha has gathered the following info. on the team members. 

MALACHY SREENAN 
 President of CW A Local 7800
· Current Member of the CW Qwest Bargaining Committee, 2004-Present 
· Vice President, Washington/North Idaho CWA Area Council 
· Thorough knowledge of the Qwest Contract through 2005 Bargaining, Grievance Handling, and Member Representation 
· Proven analytical and teamwork skills, and ability to find and apply fair and common sense solutions to workplace issues 
· MBA, UNLV- 1995; CW A Leadership School, 1st through 3rd years 
· Experience bargaining all CW A Local 7800 Non-Qwest Contracts 
As President of CW A Local 7800, I represent over 1,700 members, in most Qwest job titles, including: 
Net Techs, CDT's, CSS's  COT's, COEIT's, Supply Attendants  Load Specialists, Assignment Consultants 
Credit Consultants  Service Delivery Coordinators  Customer Communications Technicians, CTT's 
Finance  BRI 

Kent C. Anderson 
President CWA Local 7704 (801) 364-9361 
1743 West North Temple Street • Salt Lake City, Utah 84116 
Objective 
To participate in the labors and accomplishments of the 2007 CWAlQwest Bargaining Committee 
Qualifications and Collective Bargaining Experience 
ADT Contract July 2004 Prior to bargaining CWA and the union members fought off a Decertification campaign. After the Decertification vote bargaining commenced 30 days latter. Wages were improved 2.5%, High Volume installers received an increase in the hourly rate for vacation and holiday pay, an average of the last 12 months commissions paid divided by the total hours worked. This was the first ADT contract to have this improvement for High Volume. The bargaining committee was Rick Sorensen CWA, myself and James Muirhead from the ADT Unit. 
ADT Contract July 2006 This contract was bargained in 1 % days. Wages were improved 2.5%, Contracting of work and protection of seniority was improved. The company previous could layoff up to seven years. It was reduced to four years. An hourly rate was established for High Volume Stewards when meeting with the company. Payroll deduction was added to the contract for United Way/Pediatric Aids Foundation. This was the first ADT contract allowing this provision. The bargaining committee was Joe Gosiger CWA, myself and James Muirhead from the ADT Unit. 
Newspaper Agency Corporation 2002-2004-{two years) 
The NAC prints the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret Morning News. The contract was completely re-written. The company was represented by the anti-union law firm of King & Ballow, Nashville Tennessee. The bargaining committee was Billy Austin CWA, myself and Janet Lund from the NAC Unit. 
Qwest Communications 1971-2001 (Retired)
Job Titles Held 
Communications Workers of America Local 7704 
Lineman 
Installer Repairman Test Deskman Com. Serviceman Network Technician 
Steward 
Chief Steward By-Laws Committee Election Committee Local President 

SUZIE MILLER 
President CWA Local 7777 
303~781-87OQ x 15 (Office) 
EEMPLOYMENT: Southwestern Bell, Mountain Bell, US West. Qwest
Operator, Frame Attendant, Estimate Assigner,. Saks Consultant, Assignment Consultant, Splicing &Installation. 
CWA Local 7777
Steward, Area  Representative, Executive Board, Vice president, Organizer, Executive Vice President 
Representation in the following areas: 
· SBG, Cons1J111tr and Cart Centers 
· Network and Customer Data Technicians and  CSS titles 
· Central Offices and COE Technitions
· LPC, LRAC, AIN, Voice Messaging 
· All  titles and positions within the Network Reliability and Operations Center 
· IT/OCS · BRI · Finance · Designed Service Center · Health Cart &. Benefit Denial Processes 
· Execitive Work Council · 2005 Qwest Bargaining 

Ken Saether 
President Local 7906 (3rd Term)
Vice President, Oregon State Labor Council 
Qwest Executive Work Council Member (2nd Term)
Rules and Resolutions Committee Member 67th CWA National Convention 
Chair, Rules and Resolutions Committee 68th CWA National Convention 
Highly respected within the Union and Company 
Endorsed by Oregon State Labor Council 
He has experience in bargaining several contracts where healthcare and wages were the most important issues to our members, and we prevailed in all cases. 

ALTERNATE
Timothy M. Donovan 
Work: 612-722-7200  tdonovan@cwa7200.org 
Experience: Area Vice President, CWA Local 7200 
1. Elected to the position of Area Vice President in November of 1999. Represented CSS's,CCT's,RSA's,DAOS's, and Data Specialists. 
2. Persevered for a 10% increase in pension for 12 CCT's who took VSPP and they received the pension increase. Re-elected in November of 2002 and November of 2005. 
3. Currently representing CSS's, CCT's, Data Specialists, Load Specialists, Retail Sales Associates, and Senior Retail Sales Associates. 
4. Successful in receiving up to 40 hours priority personal time versus the 16 hours allowed by contract language. 
5. Attended PUC meetings to preserve our members jobs versus the CLECs having an unfair advantage. 
6. Politically active with the AFL-C10 and the Central Labor Union Council (CLUC). 
7. Legislative Committee Delegate for Local 7200 in Washington D.C. 
8. Instrumental in gathering information to settle a grievance one month prior to arbitration. Member was placed in a job that was previously awarded to a manager. Successful in making the member whole!
9. Participated in and was successful in the organizing of Cingular Call Centers in Bloomington, MN and the Cingular Retail Stores in Minnesota. 
10. Appointed Area Vice President by Local President to represent the Cingular Call Centers in Bloomington, MN and to mold the Labor-Management Relationship. 
11. Successful in modifying Cingular Attendance Policy in favor of our members through negotiations with the centers Vice President and the Human Resources department. 
12. Mentored the newly elected Area Vice President for Cingular Call Centers to help make her successful. I will continue to be there for her whenever she requests my assistance. 
13. Duties for the groups that I represent as an Area Vice President (AVP) include filing and meeting on grievances at the 1st & 2nd steps. Negotiating local agreements, internal policies, work schedules and slots for personal or vacation days. 
 Steward, CWA Local 7200  10/96-01/00 
Elected Steward for the Minnesota/Colorado Test Center. Represented DSO CCT's and Data Specialists. Transferred to Interprise as a CSS and represented CSS's and RSA's in the frame relay maintenance group. 
Education: CWA Leadership Training, Years 1, 2, & 3 BSBA (CUM LAUDE), Cardinal Stritch University Technical Degree, Brown Institute 
Activities:  Building Corp Member 
CWA National Convention Delegate 2002-2006
 Legislative Committee Member
 Womans Committee Member 



Retiree's Club Meeting   2nd Wed. of the month 11 AM at the hall  (April-November)
        Pres. Mary Jo Collins       VP. Marilyn Wolfe   Sec. Bev Simon    Treas. Helen Walsh
  See a letter From Annie Hill, Vice President: about the Retiree Local Chapters
         See the CWA's Retired Members' Council web site.


The 2008 Retired Members' Council Annual Meeting in Las Vegas set a record for the largest number of attendees ever for such an event. Throughout the day, the 110 chapter delegates, other retirees and guests representing nearly every district and sector in the union heard from many CWA vice presidents who echoed the theme of the Meeting – "We're In This Together" – in the fight for retirement security, health care reform, the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, the election of larger majorities of worker/retiree-friendly Members of Congress, and making Barack Obama America's first organizer president.

In the late morning, President Larry Cohen, then Secretary-Treasurer Easterling and then-Executive Vice President Jeff Rechenbach spoke to the delegates and addressed their questions and concerns.  President Cohen and Secretary-Treasurer Easterling were able to stay for the box lunch provided to the attendees by the Council, and continued to interact with the retirees. 

In the afternoon, the group was given a special retiree-oriented slide show of CWA's campaign "Building a Political Movement" which focused on the twin problems of unions being under assault and the health care crisis. The assembly learned that the decline of union power has matched the decline in benefits, especially in health care. The solution is to pass legislation, the Employee Free Choice Act, to make it easier for workers to gain bargaining rights. Any health care reform proposals must include everyone, control costs, improve quality, have a strong government role and have broad-base tax financing. For more information, please visit http://www.healthcarevoices.org/.

Chapter members will be given the presentation at an upcoming chapter meeting. (For those who are not Chapter members, go to http://www.cwa-union.org/rmc/rmc/rmc-chapters and find one near you.)

Delegates were actively engaged in the business of the Council. By an overwhelming margin, the delegates voted to revive Journeys, the official publication of the Council, as an electronic newsletter. They requested that future Annual Meeting include workshops on relevant issues such as chapter-building. The Board readily agreed.

Delegates were given information regarding the upcoming elections for Council's Executive Board. Briefly stated, all 18 positions are open, self-nominations are made in September, ballots are mailed in October and counted in November. More details will be in the next issue of Journeys.

The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Council will take place in Washington, DC in June. The exact date has not yet been established, but will be publicized as soon as it is known.


CWA 7102 is also proud to represent the Police, Fire Dept,
Public Works, etc. in the City of Waukee.

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CITY OF WAUKEE:  VP:   Bill Daggett   208-2142     email  billdaggett@cwa7102.org 
Chief Steward Lee Perkins work 515 987 4363 cellular 515 707 5016 email leeperkins@cwa7102.org
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Visit the Waukee Public Safety  web site.

City of Waukee  Iowa Firemem's Asoc.
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